Monday, November 14, 2005

monday news brief

Did the Bush-appointed lugnuts over at the FDA reject the "Morning After Pill" on ideological, rather than scientific, grounds?
F.D.A.'s Rejection of Contraceptive Is Questioned [nytimes]
Mixing politics and science? say it ain't so.

Here's the ever-short-sighted David Brooks's take on the Paris riots, entitled "Gangsta, in French". There's really too much going wrong here to cite specific points, but suffice it so say, homey couldn't be more off the mark if he stuck his own ass playing darts with his eyes closed.
"Gangsta, in French" [nytimes select]

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